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Imagine if 90% of American women walked off their jobs one day to protest the gender wage gap. That's precisely what the women of Iceland did on Oct. 24, 1975. Now celebrated annually as "Women's Day Off," the holiday remembers the 25,000 women (more than one-tenth of the entire population at the time) who gathered in the capital of Reykjavik to protest economic inequality for women, from unequal pay in the workplace to women's uncompensated housework and child care at home.

In the spring of 1772, wealthy Bostonians John and Susannah Wheatley sent a frail teenage girl to the fresh air of the countryside, hoping that the change of locale would spare her from maladies afflicting Bostonians. During her stay in the country, which to many colonial Bostonians was Dorchester, she grew stronger. Her name was Phillis, and she was a slave who would become the first black poetess in America to publish her work.